Every eye is an eye, when you're doing the surgery there that is just as important as if you were doing eye surgery on the prime minster or the king.

To my mind, having a care and concern for others is the highest of the human qualities.

I believe that the basic attribute of mankind is to look after each other

When I've seen an opportunity I haven't sat down and called a committee meeting, We've gone and done it.

You disappoint yourself more often by not doing things because of cowardice and temerity than you ever did by doing things that turn out to be wrong.

I have been lucky in that I've been alive at times when the things that I wanted to do were capable of being done.

Each year in Africa about two and a half million people go blind...and they just go blind... they sit around in their huts.

I studied medicine so I could help others - set a leg or whatever - and it's given me a great deal of satisfaction.

The neglect this implied, the suffering and wasted quality of human life were appalling.

When we are authentic, when we act out of presence and awareness, it also gives nourishment to the inner being of people around us.

hermes has threatened me with slow mail. lousy Internet service and a horrible stock market if i publish this story. I hope he is just bluffing.

Of all mankind's unpleasant habits, sheer and willful cruelty is the most base, the least forgivable and, when carried to its extreme, perhaps the most horrific.

The fact of the matter is that many children see. . . . Most of those who see are considered to be oddballs and every effort is made to correct them.

...with the power of compassion there is nothing that cannot be accomplished.

Plastic surgeons are always making mountains out of molehills.

Affirmations are not bound up in rules. An affirmation can be long or short, poetic or plain. If you love a phrase and find that it helps you, that is a valid affirmation.

The fools in this world make about as much trouble as the wicked do.

To eat at another's table is your ambition's height. [Lat., Bona summa putes, aliena vivere quadra.]

One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me. I am then never less alone than when alone.